SebastianS
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Anyone on here have any experience with Wyeast's Sweet Mead and Semi-Sweet Mead yeasts?
How does it match up to say the Lalvin 71b-1122?
How does it match up to say the Lalvin 71b-1122?
Anyone on here have any experience with Wyeast's Sweet Mead and Semi-Sweet Mead yeasts?
How does it match up to say the Lalvin 71b-1122?
Semi-sweet ? Only heard of sweet and dry. Either way, how does wyeast know what strains were originally used 11 or 12 hundred years ago ? They didn't write much down, certainly nothing of yeast strains. Other more recent, yet equally historic recipes are equally vague.Anyone on here have any experience with Wyeast's Sweet Mead and Semi-Sweet Mead yeasts?
How does it match up to say the Lalvin 71b-1122?
...Sweet or dry ? Is about honey/sugar levels, fermentation techniques and finishing processes.
The last one you mention is good for traditionals and cysers. Its known to produce early drinking brews and if you did cyser it can metabolise about 1/3rd of the malic acid in the apple juice. Its only negative is that its not known to be good for aging on the lees/sur lie/batonage techniques. Its generally thought that batches need to be racked off the lees/sediment no later than about 2 months after completion of the ferment as it can cause autolysis type off flavours.
I'd suggest that K1-V1116 is a better bet for general batches especially for traditionals.
...Even though you don't need a starter with dry yeast, you do still get best results when you rehydrate it properly, and I do use more than one 5 gm packet for mead. When I use 71B, I use at least 2, and often 3 packets (15 grams of yeast total)... Yes, you *can* ferment mead with only one packet, but if you want a healthy, unstressed fermentation, you need to achieve proper pitch rates.
...One using 1118, one using 1116, and 1116 clearly leaves more aroma and flavor...
I do have one other question. I re-hydrated the yeast, however, I only ended up using one packet. I purchased two though. Should I re-hydrate the other and pitch it as well? I prepared everything on Sunday morning. So should you guys recommend I do that, I can. And I trust it won't hurt the process at all, just help speed it along, even though I started it almost two days ago.
Cheers!
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